Beyoncé’s film “Renaissance” tops the box office with revenues of $21 million.

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Beyoncé has been crowned the “Queen of the Box Office” after her concert film topped the box office on its opening weekend.

“Renaissance: A Beyoncé Film” A documentary About the artist’s record-breaking world tour, which has grossed $21 million since opening Friday, according to BoxOfficeMojo. It opened in approximately 2,500 theaters through an exclusive distribution deal with AMC Theaters.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came in second place with revenues of $14.5 million. “Godzilla minus one” It debuted to an opening of $11 million.

Notably, “Renaissance” became the first film in two decades to cross the $20 million mark in its opening weekend after Thanksgiving, which is a typically slow film. The 2003 release of Tom Cruise’s “The Last Samurai” was the last release to achieve this feat.

‘Renaissance’ is the second musical to dominate the box office this year, with Taylor Swift also releasing ‘Eras ​​Tour’ exclusively through AMC, rather than a traditional Hollywood distributor, effectively cutting out the middleman and securing higher paydays. For artists and their teams.

Both films breathe some life into the box office they dominated Flops in November Including “Wonder” and “Desire”.

Domestic theaters grossed about $553.6 million last November, down 12% from a year ago and still more than $400 million below pre-pandemic levels, according to data from research firm Comscore. Between 2009 and 2019, November was a reliably profitable month to raise nearly $1 billion, due in part to the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Other major factors that contributed to the disappointing box office included SAG-AFTRA strikepreventing the actors from promoting upcoming films, as well as the highly anticipated sci-fi film “Dune: Part Two” being removed from the November slate and postponed to a March 2024 release date.

So far this year, local theaters have generated $8.26 billion in revenue, about $740 million short of the $9 billion expected for the full year.

CNN’s Leah Amilach and Eva Rotenberg contributed to this report.